The Jr. A team will host the Cornwall Colts in CCHL preseason action at Ingredion Centre in Cardinal on Wednesday, Aug. 28 at 2 p.m. The Braves will also take on the Kanata Lasers in Cardinal on Sunday, Sept. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Ice-making operations at the Brockville Memorial Centre are expected to begin in about a week and a half after the TIKO dog show, which ends Aug. 18.

The Braves will open the 2019-2010 regular season at the Memorial Centre when they host Carleton Place on Friday, Sept. 6. The opener will include an appearance by the Clarkson Pep Band. Braves GM Dustin Traylen and Head Coach Randy Jones played for Clarkson’s Golden Knights men’s hockey team in the 2000s.

Jones, a defenceman whose NHL career spanned more than eight years, joined the Braves earlier this summer. He spent the previous three seasons as bench boss of a midget AAA team in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Jesse Winchester, the Braves’ former head coach who was named CCHL Coach of the Year twice, is now working in a development role for the Ottawa Senators. Traylen, a previous CCHL coach of the year award recipient, was named CCHL GM of the Year this past season.